[mythtv-users] Theme debugging

[Greg Oliver]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Robert McNamara
>>> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am not getting the "Description" populated with the Arclight theme.
>>>>> It seems to supply it's own osd.xml file.  I am not too sure of the
>>>>> changes going on with the unified themes, but some themes do not have
>>>>> and osd.xml at all, so I am unsure of where they get the osd settings
>>>>> from.
>>>>
>>>> Nothing to debug, I just haven't put one there :)
>>>>
>>>> I do plan to add one, I'm just dragging feet on where and how.
>>>
>>> We must be talking about different things.  I'm talking about the OSD
>>> when info is pressed twice.  The show's description does not show up,
>>> but there is an entry in osd.xml, so unless I am dense from having to
>>> actually earn my pay this week (and having a hurting brain as a
>>> result), I am just confused  :)
>>
>> Depends on the vintage of your arclight OSD-- When you press the info
>> key twice, you get the program_info window, which in current Arclight
>> OSD has no description.  The description you are looking at may be the
>> one in the browse_info window?

That would certainly explain why the text I was putting in several
entries would not show up  :)

I really should just close my laptop and stop doing anything on a
keyboard today..

>
> There, description should appear in all relevant windows in r26767+.
>
> I don't love the Arclight OSD but I am done with Arclight and more
> likely to write another theme than I am to try to completely rethink
> the existing one.
>

Thanks!